DANCE WEDNESDAY | Finding Summer Inspiration at the American Dance Festival

By: Bayla GottesmanUptempo Magazine Dance Wednesday American Dance Festival

For six weeks every summer Durham, North Carolina becomes the center of dance. Hundreds of dancers, choreographers, and musicians travel to the American Dance Festival seeking to experience the 78-year-old festival tradition.  The mission of ADF is to unite a worldwide dance community in a supportive environment where the passion for dance is deeply understood.  Each year ADF offers dozens of daily classes, hosts master teachers, engages in community outreach, and invites emerging and established companies to set and perform their works.  ADF attendees learn from each other and inspire one another; it is a place of education and discovery fueled by the desire to become consumed by dance. Continue reading

ART TUESDAY | Metropolitan Museum of Art: “Impossible Conversations” Elsa Schiaparelli & Miuccia Prada

Can’t make it to this year’s Costume Institute exhibit? Don’t worry! We’ve got you covered! After this year’s successful Met Gala, images were released of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “Impossible Conversations” with Elsa Schiaparelli & Miuccia Prada. More to come on the exhibit in our next issue!
Uptempo Magazine Metropolitan Museum of Art Impossible Conversations Elsa Schiaparelli Miuccia Prada Continue reading

MUSIC MONDAY | Divas Ascending

by Christie Connolley, Operagasm

Uptempo Magazine EV Day Divas Ascending Operagasm Christie ConnolleyArtist E.V. Day’s incredible work appears in all the prestigious arts venue, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Art, the New York Library…. and most recently Southern Methodist University Meadow School of the Arts.  The Texas-based University is hosting Carmen, Merry Widow and Hats, part of the fourteen suspended sculptures, which encompass Divas Ascending.  Continue reading

DANCE WEDNESDAY | The Contemporary American Dance Museum: A Solution to an Educational Crisis

By: Bayla GottesmanUptempo Magazine Dance Wednesday Contemporary American Dance Museum Bayla Gottesman

American dance is suffering an educational crisis among its audiences.  Largely ignorant to current dance trends, the public needs an educational venue focusing on the work modern choreographers are producing.  The new Committee for the Contemporary American Dance Museum seeks to serve as the link between artist and audience. The Committee’s mission “will be to generate, collect, preserve, interpret and exhibit fine art and archival material, which document American contemporary modern dances as they are being created and performed.” Continue reading

MUSIC MONDAY | The Sounds of Beata Pater

By: Yvonne Grays NathaneUptempo Magazine Music Monday Beata Pater Yvonne Grays NathaneLiving in a music culture that is often driven by “demographic viability,” imposed trends, and formulaic interpretations of what an artist should look and sound like, it is pleasing to come across an artist with a non-commercial sound, distinguished from popular offerings. Continue reading

MUSIC MONDAY | Twenty Questions with Angela Meade

by Christie Connolley, OperagasmUptempo Magazine Music Monday Angela MeadeWe at Uptempo Magazine have our eye on up and coming classical music superstars, and Angela Meade is undoubtedly a diva on the rise!  We checked in with Ms. Meade, the recipient of the prestigious 2012 Beverly Sills Artist Award before preparations for her upcoming debut at the Deutsche Oper Berlin as Lucrezia Contarini in Verdi’s I due Foscari.  Don’t worry, she will be back to perform for American audiences this summer, you can catch her performance at one of these three major US music festivals – The Blossom Music Festival in Cleveland, Ohio;  the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in New York, and the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado. Continue reading